Nutation

Name:           Nutation
Author:		Glen R. Diener 
Platforms:      NeXT
Prerequisites:  NEXTSTEP 3.0, MusicKit 3.0, Sonata font, >4 MB disk space
Price:          free
Demo:           
To acquire:     ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/NeXT/Nu/Nu.pkg.tar
Information:
Entry updated:  11 Oct 1994
Description:	

	Nutation is a music notation system for the NeXT machine. In Nutation, the elements of music notation...notes, clefs, and so on, are all represented as objects called glyphs.  Glyphs are highly-interactive objects: you can drag them, resize them, copy them, delete them, and pile them on top of each other, all through direct manipulation with the mouse.
	All notation which you create with Nutation can be played in real-time on a NeXT machine using the on-board DSP chip.  Nutation uses the music kit to control the DSP. 
	Programmers: This release of Nutation includes a reasonably complete set of glyphs for common music notation, but you can easily extend the system with a little programming.  Nutation is really a visual programming environment built on top of ObjC, and Nutation provides a complete programming environment for this purpose.
	Nutation, as a program, is about as stable as, say, the Icon app in release 2.0.  Don't be surprised if it hangs and crashes now and then, and be sure and save your work often!  You can ignore any error messages you see in the workspace's console window.